Youth Connection Centers Opening In Baltimore

Angela Johnese, Director of the Mayor's office on Criminal Justice, says that the Youth Connection Centers will help young people who get arrested or stopped for diversion eligible offenses or violations of curfews.

According to Johnese, these centers will take youth that keep getting in trouble and connect them with the right services that will prevent further delinquency.

She also says that they are using the diversion offenses and curfews as avenues to get into the centers at first but as the program continues to develop they will have more ways for young people or their parents get into the centers. They are hoping to launch these centers in June and keep them running year round.